can't change text color in Notes 4.2 on an iMac

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can't change text color in Notes 4.2 on an iMac

I am not able to change the color of the text in Notes on my iMac.

The text comes out always in a putrid mustard yellow that is barely legible onscreen.

If I use the Format menu to bring up fonts and colors, the putrid mustard yellow is displayed.

When I change that to black, the little square on the format colors window turns to black.

But no change is made to highlighted text and I am unable to find a way to do that.

The Notes help menu gives directions about a whole lot of things I don't have, menus and bottom of the page toolbars, and Inspector and so on.

Notes is version 4.2, computer is iMac 27" mid-2014, OS is 10.11.6

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X 10.11

Posted on Mar 12, 2019 12:45 PM

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Eric Root

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Mar 13, 2019 10:40 AM in response to sdaniel5

Do a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.Notes.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.

Restart the computer, open the application, and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.

If the application is the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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VikingOSX

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Mar 13, 2019 7:12 AM in response to sdaniel5

You cannot change the mustard color of hyperlinked text by any means. You should be able to change ordinary text font color via the Format : Font : Show Colors panel.

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sdaniel5 Author

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Mar 13, 2019 8:06 AM in response to VikingOSX

No text will change color from mustard, not hyperlinked, not unlinked, not plain. Nor can I change the setting so that the next thing I type will be in any other color. Pasted text from anywhere also displays as mustard.

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VikingOSX

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Mar 13, 2019 3:31 PM in response to sdaniel5

Maybe there is an incentive for you to upgrade. Notes v4.6 on Mojave responds well to setting text color. And as I am away from home, I have no El Capitan to boot into to test.

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can't change text color in Notes 4.2 on an iMac

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